TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Following Alabama's first practice since the Ole Miss game, Nick Saban addressed a room full of reporters for 14 minutes at the Mal M. Moore Athletic Center.

Here were the five biggest highlights.

1. Alabama has two fumbles over the past two games and has put the ball on the ground seven times. That's seven too many, Saban said.

- "If we have one fumble, I'm concerned. OK? The ball has been on the
ground too many times and that's one of the things we worked on last
week and it was on the ground a couple of times in the last game. It's
something we need to continue to work on. Ball security is very, very
important."

2. There's no rest for Alabama's coaches during the bye week.

- "We
had a lot of stuff to do. There's a lot of catching up to do. For us to
practice on the teams we're playing down the road, we have to
spend time preparing for that, too. Whatever team it is that we're
trying to prepare for that particular day _ we worked on two different
teams today _ so you have to spend a significant amount of time trying
to get ready for that, too. Which I think really
adds interest for the players in practice, because they're doing
something different. But that also takes time on our part. So nothing
really much different."

3. He called linebacker C.J. Mosley the most productive player on Alabama's defense.

- "He's
such a playmaker. He does a really good job. I hope he keeps improving
and getting better. He doesn't say much but if you just match his
intensity and match the way he does thing, I think his leadership is
effective as well."

4. Saban said he "had a fit" during a special teams meeting today because of the repeated mistakes made by the team's younger players.

- "We're
coaching one thing and they're doing something else. Downstairs on the
board, it says you have to have faith, trust and confidence in the
principals of the guys in the organization, what you're being taught to
do and how you do it. Well, they obviously don't
have it because we teach it every day, we work on it every day. We
teach them how to do it every day. You get in the game and they go rat
trap."

5. He opened his press conference with an open-ended question for every member of the Alabama program.

- "The
big question here is, if everyone in the organization is not doing
everything they can do to help the team be all it can be, then we
need to change the way we're doing things, change the way we think,
change our attitude about what we're doing, whether it's how we play our
position, how we coach our position, how we coach the team, how we
motivate the team. When you walk off the field at
the end of the game, do you feel like you really beat the other guy?
Was your energy, your enthusiasm, your sense of urgency, your excitement
where it needs to be for you to be the best player you can be.

"I think that there's been plenty of times we've shown when we do things
with the right energy level, we do it pretty well. But that hasn't
been as consistent as we'd like for it to be."